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And we stumble & we stagger
down the snakes & up the ladders
We were dying to be famous
to be high, to be outrageous
We were dying to be dead by twenty-five
We were dying to be Dylan
to be beggers worth a million
to be nowhere & suddenly arrive
(We we dying to be saintly
be obeyed)
And we stumble and we stagger
down the snakes and up the ladders
to the tower where the acid hours chime
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It's crazy and we're naked
and the summer night is fragrant
with a mighty expectation of relief
So
We're act as
We're aching & we're breaking
& the
I remember how it happened
There was love & there was acid
and a crazy expectation of relief
and my very close companion
She's the Angel of Abstraction
She's mathematics wearing something brief
She's the Angel of Abstraction
and we're dying to be friendly
with the prisoner and the sentry
We were dying to be friendly
with the prisoner and the sentry
I loved you when our love was blessed
I love you with my dying breath
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she's poetry that doesn't need to rhyme
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I remember how it happened
there was love & there was acid
and a modest expectation of relief
And my very close companion
she's the Angel of Abstraction
she's mathematics wearing something brief
she's diagrams of crystal
and her soul is made of crystal
you got to be the ?? to hear it chime
She diagrams of crystal
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but I prefer the asprins for relief
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So we're drinking & we're dancing
as if there's acid in the bathroom
and a modest expectation of relief
and my very close companion
She's a paradox of fashion
she's the Holy Mother wearing something brief
And we stumble & we stagger
down the snakes & down the ladders
to the monuments of prehistoric slime
but till that chimes I'm working
overtime
I hope your wife & kids are great
& I hope that the story ends okay
I been gone a while but I came back to say
that's it's closing time
I left a while but I'm back to say
that your kids will leave
& your wife will stay
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Too late too late
for the boys at the bar
too late for the fiddle
and the pedal steel guitar
But I'm glad I got to tell you
just how beautiful you are
Too late too late
too late to try
too late to live
too late to die
they ought to give
the night a ticket
they ought to bust the (night) evening
with a ticket for speeding
don't they know that it's a crime
to ?? her beauty in the meat machine
to blow the whistle & to clear the scene
to rush the Duke of Windsor to succeed the ??
to stuff my Angel in the meat machine
when she just got a handle in the ?? scene
to run these lovely faces past me
and lastly
Closing Time
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I love you with a love denied
a love nobody ever tried
I'm boasting now but that's all right
I'll love you from the other side
& We're dying to be ??
& the summer night is fragrant
with a mighty expectation of relief
& we struggle & we stagger
down the snakes & up the ladder
to the tower where the blessed hours chime
& I swear it happened just like this
I touched her (face) soul, she kissed my lips
The Gates of Love, they budged an inch
& nothing much has happened since
but closing time
I didn't know they'd go this far
to grab our glass off the bar
& I'll love you with a love denied
with a love that only ghosts have tried
I'm boasting now but that's all right
I'll love you from the other side
of closing time
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to grab our glasses & to clear the floor
to run us barefoot out the backroom door
before
to grab our glasses off the bar
I didn't know they'd go as far
as closing time
not so much as our ??
to grab the glasses from our hand
I love you with a love denied
a love that's true & deep & wide as closing time
I'm drunk I got the stench of love
I'm fighting for her love & then
I'm struggling for her love & then
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this ain't a promise that I make
but I'll wait for you
for the children's sake
& I'll work for you till you get
it straight
that I loved you once but I'm running late
for closing time
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